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600 and counting….

Congratulations to the Colorado Avalanche’s Joe Sakic for notching his 600th goal in the NHL.
Only the 17 th player in NHL history to reach this mark, Sakic also joins a rather elite list of players in the last 30 years of competition who have had 5 point games at the age of 37 or above.

With [...]

Woe Canada, what went wrong?

Canada followed the USA out of the Olympics yesterday after a 2-0 defeat at the hands of bitter rivals Russia. The Russian’s out shot the Canadian’s by 33-27 and goals from Alexander Ovechkin and Alexei Kovalev condemmed the Canadian’s to a shock early exit.
But what happened to the 2006 Canadian team that appeared so strong [...]

Canada edge out Czech’s

A late fight back from the Czech Republic could not deny TEAM CANADA a vital 3-2 win in Torino yesterday. Three first period goals looked to have put the Canadian’s into a comfortable position in the final group game before Pavel Kubina (33:46) and Petr Cajanek (42:41), gave the Czech’s late hope. Canada are currently [...]

Canada lose again….

Two first period goals from Teemu Selanne and Niko Kapanen, condemmed TEAM CANADA to their second succesive 0-2 loss. After their shock defeat by SWITZERLAND on Saturday, the Canadians again failed to find the net against a very strong FINLAND team. They face the Czech Republic on Tuesday, needing a morale boosting win before the [...]

Canadian’s thrash Germany….

Wade Redden scored 4 minutes and 52 seconds into the first period to set TEAM CANADA on the way to a 5-1 thrashing of Germany in Torino yesterday. Further goals from the Av’s Joe Sakic, Simon Gagne, Dany Heatley and Shane Doan capped a great display by the favourites. Team USA had better luck [...]

TEAM CANADA begin well in Torino….

TEAM CANADA have gotten off to a great start in the Olympic Ice Hockey tournament in Torino. In their opening match versus the host’s Italy, goals from Jerome Iginla (2), Shane Doan, Martin St Louis, Dany Heatley, Joe Thornton and Brad Richards gave the Canadian team a reasonably comfortable 7-2 win. After a slow [...]

AVALANCHE Vs RED WINGS Part 3

After losing the first two meetings with fierce rivals the DETROIT RED WINGS, the COLORADO AVALANCHE went into tonights third encounter of the season hungry for a bit of payback. After two periods the teams still could not be separated, despite the AV’S having 4 powerplay chances. Then 5:40 into the third period the RED [...]

AVALANCHE downed by RED WINGS

Robert Lang scored late in the second period and the Detroit Red Wings killed two 5-on-3 disadvantages on the way ro a 4-3 win over the Avalanche on Saturday afternoon. After losing their 8 game unbeaten streak to the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night, the Avs lost their 5 game home unbeaten run, which was [...]

Tanguay denies former team mate Forsberg….

Alex Tanguay scored with 45.8 seconds left in overtime, helping Colorado spoil Peter Forsberg’s first game against his former team in the Avalanche’s 4-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.

Avs beat Canadiens for sixth straight win….

The Colorado Avalanche beat the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 on Wednesday night to notch up their sixth straight win in the NHL.
Goals from Marek Svatos and Ian Laperriere capped off a fine third period comback by the Avalanche, who had earlier fallen behind to a second period goal from Craig Rivet.
For a full match report [...]